A long-awaited tobacco licensing scheme will be rolled out in Victoria amid an explosion of illegal vapes and cigarettes fuelling a spate of store firebombings.

Shop owners in the northern Victorian town of Swan Hill say they are concerned after a threatening note was left outside a ...

Rohan Pike, a crime consultant and former AFP detective, asked retailers at a conference in Melbourne on Friday morning whether the escalating cost of insurance, “constant” threat of robberies, ...